Little or no evidence supports the business model rhetoric. An increasingly disturbing trend among policy elites, involves neo-liberal proclivities for privatizing public services and empowering corporate domination of policy making applied to education.

In an alert entitled "Barbie 'Video Girl' a Possible Child Pornography Production Method," the FBI said the doll has a built-in hidden camera in the chest and a small LCD screen for video display in her back.

"You had to live - you did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
-Winston Smith worries in George Orwell's classic novel, "1984."

Moveon.org is also calling on the president to fight and not let himself "get pushed around." This has led to questions about Obama's manhood that have taken the form of a Courtland Milloy analogy based on an injury Obama got playing ball to...--> Read

Many believe they are part of a new civil rights movement. As such, they are not just stopping at one piece of legislation, but are demanding full equality under the law. And they have taken to employing an "inside-outside" strategy that, --> Please read

The Eighth Amendment in the US Constitution prohibits, among other things, cruel and unusual punishment of prisoners. This prohibition is the grounds for a lawsuit filed by federal inmate #89637-132, Leonard Peltier, who is considered by many worldwide ->

What this country's politicians are missing is the fact that your average American has been subject to the same kind of scrutiny and invasion of privacy that the upper echelons of government are now experiencing. Since 9/11 Americans' privacy has been qui